It’s hardly a fail on the scale of Apple Maps – with its farm-labeled-as-an-airport fiasco and other such mishaps – but it will nevertheless be refreshing for some people to learn that Google, widely ...

Thomas Jefferys, “Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish settlements in North America, and the West Indies” (London, 1768) (courtesy Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the ...

The year is 1973, and a ragtag group of U.S. military officials, scientists, and monster hunters set off on a special mission to map a newly discovered island with a very large secret. That’s the plot ...

Cartography is a delicate skill. Making maps requires careful charting of landmasses, rivers, mountains, and all kinds of terrain. Before satellite imagery, this was much more difficult. For instance, ...

Google Maps is probably the gold standard when it comes to modern maps, as Apple found to its chagrin when it swapped out Google's maps app for its own a few months ago. But even the best aren't ...

The first known map was a painting of a cityscape and an erupting volcano. Found on the wall of a baked-mud dwelling in the ancient Catal Huyuk settlement in present-day Turkey, it was drawn around ...

Playa Rosada, Costa Rica's pink sand, disappearing island off the coast of Playa Pelada. Maldives. Bora Bora. Seychelles. Bali. Santorini. These are some of the most beautiful islands in the world.